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Some Comments on Quantiles and Order Statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

P. V. Ramachandramurty and
M. Sudhakara Rao
P. V. Ramachandramurty
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
M. Sudhakara Rao
Affiliation:
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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A new concept—that of pseudoconsistency—which seems to be particularly appropriate for the estimation of a quantile is introduced. It is shown without any conditions whatsoever on the underlying distributionthat the sample quantile is strongly pseudoconsistent for the corresponding population quantile. The asymptotic distribution of the sample quantiles and order statistics is derived when the underlying distribution is discrete.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1973, pp. 289 - 293
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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